Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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  1. Moodo
    Jun 14, 2022
    6
    Do NOT buy this game if you are interested in gameplay, only buy it for the story, it's a very story heavy game, and the "realism" in gameplay just wastes your time, the first few hours of this game is just teaching you how bad and stupid you are, which some can handle, but if you arent interested in the story the game becomes boring very fast. If you like gameplay just play Skyrim orDo NOT buy this game if you are interested in gameplay, only buy it for the story, it's a very story heavy game, and the "realism" in gameplay just wastes your time, the first few hours of this game is just teaching you how bad and stupid you are, which some can handle, but if you arent interested in the story the game becomes boring very fast. If you like gameplay just play Skyrim or Bannerlord instead.… Expand
  2. MadclownJack
    Feb 21, 2018
    5
    It looks well put together visually but the gameplay experience itself is a boring nightmare of broken mechanisms. Can't get past the no saving without an expensive item crap, i mean really. It's just annoying to have yourself ambushed, die laughably fast (because screw a viable battle system, right?) and to top it all off the last save you had was an hour ago. Nah, keep your ****It looks well put together visually but the gameplay experience itself is a boring nightmare of broken mechanisms. Can't get past the no saving without an expensive item crap, i mean really. It's just annoying to have yourself ambushed, die laughably fast (because screw a viable battle system, right?) and to top it all off the last save you had was an hour ago. Nah, keep your **** "realism". I'm done.… Expand
  3. Mandulum
    Sep 13, 2019
    5
    Favorite Thing: The good voice acting is really good. It puts the, much higher budget, FFVIII Remake to shame.
    Least Favorite Thing: The combat. I really hate it. It's so janky and constantly feels like I'm fighting against the controls to get it to do anything.

    Date Stopped: 2019-09-11
    Playtime: 8h
    Enjoyment: 5/10
    Recommendation: After 8 hours it failed to hook me in the least so no.
  4. alanbessa
    Mar 10, 2018
    5
    Not recommended.

    A solid attempt but the bugged gameplay and shallow story is a real downside.
  5. gromenawer
    Mar 3, 2018
    5
    This game is neither a 10 or a 0 ; are we even playing the same game?? All this review comes from a GTX980, 8GB DDR3, i5, playing on medium with bloom off.

    The game is great in many aspects and have plenty of innovative designs. Combat is good for a hardcore gamer. But the game is plainly and simple half broken. I got 24- FPS drops in cutscenes while in open field I average at 90+.    This game is neither a 10 or a 0 ; are we even playing the same game?? All this review comes from a GTX980, 8GB DDR3, i5, playing on medium with bloom off.

    The game is great in many aspects and have plenty of innovative designs. Combat is good for a hardcore gamer.

    But the game is plainly and simple half broken. I got 24- FPS drops in cutscenes while in open field I average at 90+. The head bobbling is horrible, it makes you feel drunk by default and will give you dizziness playing the game. There is not even an option to turn it off. Mods for it doesn't fix it. Even with a perfectly optimized game that "feature" alone would make unplayable in the long run.

    Then you got constant freezes. No FPS drops, the game just halt for three or four seconds to catch a breath in the middle of nothing demanding happening, and then continues. People glitch around from time to time. In general everything looks like worse than a Bethesda v1.0 game.

    I would really like to continue playing, but I simply can't take it anymore. I don't recommend the game in its current state. And I would love to see it success eventually.    … Expand
  6. Kurt_Rivera
    Feb 16, 2018
    5
    Проект однозначно интересный, но, к сожалению, на данной стадии НЕИГРАБЕЛЬНЫЙ!
    Игра не оптимизирована от слова "совсем". Моя конфигурация:
    I5 6600k, gtx 1060 6gb, 16 gb оперативки. Выдает в среднем 40 fps на любых настройках. От минимальных, до самых ультровых. Сам по себе fps крайне нестабилен, постоянные фризы. Порой один за одним. Особо хочется отметить долгие загрузки перед    Проект однозначно интересный, но, к сожалению, на данной стадии НЕИГРАБЕЛЬНЫЙ!
    Игра не оптимизирована от слова "совсем". Моя конфигурация:
    I5 6600k, gtx 1060 6gb, 16 gb оперативки.
    Выдает в среднем 40 fps на любых настройках. От минимальных, до самых ультровых. Сам по себе fps крайне нестабилен, постоянные фризы. Порой один за одним.

    Особо хочется отметить долгие загрузки перед диалогами. Кликаешь на персонажа и ждешь от 5 до 10 секунд, глядя на темный экран, пока подгрузится ракурс. Это неприемлимо. Мы ведь в РПГ играем, здесь много диалогов. А так даже на торгаша лишний раз нажимать не хочется. Чтобы не ждать. Когда кликнул на сюжетного персонажа (диалог с нашей девушкой в Пабе), здал 28 секунд. Специально считал. Это кошмарно.

    Это позор, релизить игру в таком состоянии. При этом, положа руку на сердце, графика НЕ поражает. Она обычная. Даже на ультра. Никаких супер освещений от nvidia, супер волос или мега текстур. Все очень посредственно. И при этом прожорливо. Или просто поломано?

    В том же Ведьмаке на ультрах с волосами у меня было стабильно 50-55 fps, без волос 60fps с локом, без лока 78-90fps. А там мир бесшовный и вид от 3-го лица, т.е. в кадр попадает больше объектов и нагрузка выше на железо. Здесь же такие фризы с видом из глаз, поле зрения 65...

    Надо подождать, короче. Игра интересная. Но она еще не вышла, по сути. Ждем пары-тройки патчей...    … Expand
  7. 21grams
    Mar 17, 2018
    5
    Disclaimer: I bought the game with release of patch 1.3 with hopes game is finally playable, but it's not entirely true. I completed around 30-40% of the game and it's unplayable due to a technical bug - basically my screen shakes like crazy whenever I move or turn camera. Plus there some other graphical glitches, clipping and performance is iffy in some locations (-3pts because IDisclaimer: I bought the game with release of patch 1.3 with hopes game is finally playable, but it's not entirely true. I completed around 30-40% of the game and it's unplayable due to a technical bug - basically my screen shakes like crazy whenever I move or turn camera. Plus there some other graphical glitches, clipping and performance is iffy in some locations (-3pts because I technically cannot continue without a patch)

    The other complaint I'm having is that game feels like far from finished, more like early access or early beta version. This naturally includes various bugs and graphical glitches - and there is still quite a lot of them - tho only one mentioned in disclaimer is completely game breaking - others either have workarounds or can be ignored since they are not extremely intrusive. Some things simply just do not work - like some perks or learning of those perks or combos. Then we have combat system that severely lacks polishing - it's quite unresponsive, problematic forced target locking which makes fights one vs many very dodgy to say the least and controls of the combat could get some major improvements - in other words, idea for the combat system wasn't bad, but execution severely lacked development time. Then we have some systems that don't make much logical sense: necessity to eat is absolutely pointless, because there are free meal pots and that renders all other food obsolete. Next system that doesn't make sense is stealing - basically everything is considered stolen (except what you loot from defeated foes) regardless if there was witness or not, hell even items you take from abandoned camps are considered stolen. And the worst part is - how easily you can sell stolen items - either you sell it to "black market" vendor or just go to town in different region. These two systems are not immersive completely. (-2pts)

    Now some good things - I'll start by saying, that if not what was talked above, game would be easily 9/10 - but it's one of most rushed out and unpolished games I've played since Skyrim? I think writing is really good, with nice humor and interesting characters. Quests for the most part are done well with more or less interesting backstory (some are crazy good and funny), with just few being real fetch. Game world is beautiful tho feels bit empty and vast at times (not a big issue, but sign of lack of development time). I like progression system which is basically practice based - as you do certain activities you gain experience for certain stats and you become better at those activities (so no silly skill points you distribute at random), there are only perks which slightly alter or extend your specific abilities and I like that a lot.

    Summary: it's quite good game but sadly extremely rushed to release with tons of bugs and glitches and despite fact that around 500 of them been fixed with patch 1.3, there are still game breaking stuff left (or maybe introduced in 1.3) like the one I talked about in disclaimer leaving player with nothing but waiting for the next patch. It's real shame good games are ruined by terrible state there are released in.

    Some people may find my verdict cruel, but sorry - paid AAA price for it and I'm treating it like any other AAA release. For $60 I find such game state (with bugs making me unable to continue) completely disgusting (thus -3pts for this one alone) and now I have to wait hell knows how much longer for next patch to be able to finish the game. Also lack of polish and logic in some systems that either are so pointless that become unnecessary chore or are just annoying and intrusive for basically no reason. Also allegedly game is missing some bits (some say it's missing whole act) which most like to be released in DLC (probably paid one) or even a sequel (which is even worse) so I have to cut at least another 2pts for these. (so -5pts total).

    Maybe one day it'll be nice and bug free game with some quality polish, but as things stand now I strongly advise not to ruin your experience and wait with your buys. Technical state of the game is still unacceptable.    … Expand
  8. R3DTHR3AT
    Dec 17, 2020
    5
    Разрабам ККД, впрочем как и многим другим, не дают покоя лавры третьего ведьмака и поэтому они решили использовать те же подходы в разработке, а в частности упор на квесты и возложение болта на эксплоринг и рпг составляющую в плане развития персонажа.

    Сюжетка сделана под мое почтение, да и побочки тоже. Возможно даже интереснее, чем в ведьмаке. А вот мир такой же пустой. Фауны    Разрабам ККД, впрочем как и многим другим, не дают покоя лавры третьего ведьмака и поэтому они решили использовать те же подходы в разработке, а в частности упор на квесты и возложение болта на эксплоринг и рпг составляющую в плане развития персонажа.

    Сюжетка сделана под мое почтение, да и побочки тоже. Возможно даже интереснее, чем в ведьмаке. А вот мир такой же пустой. Фауны практически никакой, нет хищных животных. К вашим услугам зайцы, олени, косули и кабаны. На этом все. Объекты на карте не объекты вообще. Садок с форелью и улей с медом как объекты на карте - это просто смешно. Перки некоторых навыков просто выжиты из пальца и вообще непонятно как это должно усилить или облегчить жизнь моему персонажу. Интересно сделанная алхимия и, что более важно, облегченная под конец.

    Игру проходил в жестком режиме со всеми дебаффами. Никаких особых проблем от них не почувствовал. Иногда доставило ориентирование по местности без метки самого себя на карте, но опыт в выживачах не пропьешь так что норм. Турнир на жестком режиме воистину жестковат, за это респект. Багов за всю игру встречал только два. Один раз не до конца прогрузился город и игра вылетела и один раз словил бесконечную загрузку. Всё это за 200+ часов игры.

    В общем по плюсам:

    + интересные квесты
    + интересная боевка
    + годный графен
    + годная стилистика средневековья и встроенные исторические факты

    Минусы:

    - Пустой мир
    - Слабое развитие персонажа
    - Жесткий режим не жесткий
    - Чуть затянутый пролог

    В общем игра не бяка, но и не фонтан.    … Expand
  9. Crackfarmer
    Feb 22, 2018
    5
    Keep in mind : Everyone who is giving this Game more than a 7/10 probably consumed drugs to diminish the perception.

    At this point of time all i can say is, if you consider getting this game - you should wait several months in order to NOT ruin your gaming experience. This Game is far from beeing called a "full released game", i would actually call it a well done beta. Gtx 1070 ,    Keep in mind : Everyone who is giving this Game more than a 7/10 probably consumed drugs to diminish the perception.

    At this point of time all i can say is, if you consider getting this game - you should wait several months in order to NOT ruin your gaming experience.

    This Game is far from beeing called a "full released game", i would actually call it a well done beta.

    Gtx 1070 , i7 4790k, 16gb ram, game installed on SSD.

    Barely maintaining 60 fps.

    In Comparision - Assassins Creed Origins on ultra (maxed out everything) on 1440p - close to 80fps.

    The word "optimization" seems to not be in their word chart.

    This is a shame to release such an half heart done optimized game.    … Expand
  10. ThatGuyWhoTypes
    Feb 13, 2018
    5
    I really wanted to love this game and I have watched this game go from concept to release all through the lifespan of it starting up on Kickstarter. Even with an intel 4790k and a GTX 980, the game goes from 60 to 30FPS VERY quickly. Just with playing the game for only an hour I've experienced NPC's with black boxes over their heads, and because FPS isn't consistent and dips to 30FPS, theI really wanted to love this game and I have watched this game go from concept to release all through the lifespan of it starting up on Kickstarter. Even with an intel 4790k and a GTX 980, the game goes from 60 to 30FPS VERY quickly. Just with playing the game for only an hour I've experienced NPC's with black boxes over their heads, and because FPS isn't consistent and dips to 30FPS, the combat can't be enjoyed and you're forced to fight everyone within the game at almost a slow crawl in framerate. It didn't matter if the graphics settings were set to "very high" or "high", it just runs poorly. Keep in mind that the game is worse in borderless mode vs. fullscreen. There also seems to be an issue with the game crashing at launch, but usually with go into the startup logo animation and fix itself. For a crowdfunded $60 game that is plagued with bugs and performance issues, you're better off waiting for them to address these issues or pass it up completely. The gameplay and story leave much to be desired. I'm surprised at how empty some villages are, lacking the depth that a game should have should have, in order to draw you in. Overall, in its current state, this game isn't worth $60.… Expand
  11. Stinsav
    Apr 25, 2018
    5
    I really tried to like this game... like really! But there's just too much bugs and problems with it that it's impossible for me to just dig in. First i'll start with the gameplay, while the swords combat system is awesome and really well made, the archery is a total mess, no control on your arrows whatsoever and aiming is a little bit too much difficult. Then we have the mouvements, theyI really tried to like this game... like really! But there's just too much bugs and problems with it that it's impossible for me to just dig in. First i'll start with the gameplay, while the swords combat system is awesome and really well made, the archery is a total mess, no control on your arrows whatsoever and aiming is a little bit too much difficult. Then we have the mouvements, they lack in fluidity sometime i would encounter bugs where my character would just climb of a tree just by going backward while trying to escapes enemies. The horse is a total mess too, the control are badly designed and it doesn't feel like a proper horse ride for me.

    But my biggest problem with this game is the infinite bugs in it, the constant drop of FPS (I play on PS4) and mostly, MOSTLY! The saving system. Why the **** would you have to pay in game items to save a game, it's ridiculous, and the fact that the game doesn't have any auto-save option is a bad thing. I was doing a quest and i was nearly at the end of it, but i died and due to the lack of auto-save it reloaded almost at the begining of the quest, wich means that i lost 1 hour just for that!

    Maybe just me complaining, cause a lot of people seems to enjoy this game, but i just can't and i tried to!    … Expand
  12. JimmyJams
    Apr 26, 2018
    5
    Summary:
    +Incredible graphics, great sound design, decent voice acting, well thought out dialog, interesting and authentic quests, historically accurate setting, realistic environments
    -The game isn't fun. Lock-on combat is boring, stat-based, dizzying, and broken in multi-combatant scenerios. Combat boils down to constant parry-trading and spamming attacks. Combos are pointless. Archery    Summary:
    +Incredible graphics, great sound design, decent voice acting, well thought out dialog, interesting and authentic quests, historically accurate setting, realistic environments
    -The game isn't fun. Lock-on combat is boring, stat-based, dizzying, and broken in multi-combatant scenerios. Combat boils down to constant parry-trading and spamming attacks. Combos are pointless. Archery is an unpredictable and useless mess. Too much walking and not enough to do; underwhelming gameplay loops.

    Incredible graphics, probably the best I've ever seen in an open world game Witcher III included. Great sound design, everything from birds chirping from above, wind blowing through the trees, player brushing against bushes, clanking of swords, jingle of chain armor, town ambience, and so on is all very convincing. Decent voice acting and well thought out dialog, quests are interesting and authentic. Environmental detail and historical accuracy, check. The main gameplay loops though... they're just boring. It all comes together in this mundane goopy soup of mediocracy. The lockon combat is tedious, dizzing, and not fun. Multi-combantant combat is outright broken. Combat outcomes are pretty much stat based. The only skill component of combat is this reaction time test called "parrying". Combos are irrelevant because any enemy your level will parry a good 50% of your attacks and the shortest combos are 3 consequtive non-parried hits. Anyone below your level will die to non-comboed attacks easily. Archery is a cluster ♥♥♥♥ of randomness. You get pretty much 1-2 arrows off before combat starts and landing them is a magic trick. Restricted save system just makes the game less fun. Outside of combat you are doing a crap-ton of walking around and nothing. There's a lot to see in the world, just nothing to do.

    This is a case of putting realism over gameplay and fun which is the reason anyone plays a video game. If you want a cool art gallery game, play this game, otherwise avoid.    … Expand
  13. Chadpowers
    Feb 13, 2018
    5
    I was really looking forward to this game, one of the few I bought right at release time. However, I was disappointed in many ways.

    Graphics: 6/10 It looks great on pictures, but in motion there are a lot of things that just feel wrong. Especially the transitions between animations look too goofy. The world design is pretty, but monotonous. The game consists of mostly fields and    I was really looking forward to this game, one of the few I bought right at release time. However, I was disappointed in many ways.

    Graphics: 6/10
    It looks great on pictures, but in motion there are a lot of things that just feel wrong. Especially the transitions between animations look too goofy. The world design is pretty, but monotonous. The game consists of mostly fields and forest, while that might be realistic, it's boring after the first few looks. Not to mention that the dense vegetation can make navigating quite a chore. The performance of the game is also somewhat lacking, a few graphical bugs, weird pop in, extreme loading times.

    Story: 5/10
    There are a lot of realistic stories out there that are really entertaining. Sadly the story is this game is only somewhat realistic and not very entertaining at all. The main character is incredibly ugly and unsympathethic. It feels downright disgusting having to play him. Most of all the story is very short, but I don't want to spoil anything. If you just focus on the story, the game is extremely short and the miniscule combat will be no hurdle to finish it.

    Sound: 7/10
    Again they tried to have realistic sounds, but those are simply boring and unimmersive. The music is decent, but the voiceover is ok at best.

    Gameplay: 2/10
    The gameplay should be the core of a game and yet again, like so many other games, KCD doesn't really get it right. Their failed sense of realism and all that talk about historical accuracy lead to a combat system that is little more than Skyrim + extra attack directions - so quite rudimentary. It also features a lock-on system despite being first person, which makes no sense whatsoever. Fighting more than one enemy is a huge pain. Of course the damage calculation is just a rudimentary like in every other game (basically just damage-armor), despite the game being supposed to be realistic.
    Ranged combat without reticle is a joke and also numerically underpowered. The AI is just about ok, but still has the typical game AI flaws.
    While the game seems great for exploration, it really isn't, because there is no need to explore because you can find all your equipment from defeating just a few enemies. The 16 equipment slots are a chore to deal with.
    Quests are for the most part rather unoriginal.
    The crafting is the most arbitrary thing I have ever witnessed in any game. You can sharpen your weapon, yet despite being forced to play the son of a blacksmith you can't smith a thing. On the other hand you can do alchemy and that's it for crafting. It clearly shows that the devs had no real plan on what to do with crafting, lazily implemented the alchemy system, figured everything else is too much work and left this incomplete mess.
    The character development is also badly realized. First of all the game features pointless stats such a charisma, which allow to do things by simply having the right number - which is the opposite of gameplay and forcing the player to just fulfill arbitrary number requirements. The system itself is an uninspired mess of your usual pointless rpg stats, despite not being anywhere near realistic. The game also adds stuff like being dirty having an effect, but after the first use of that it just becomes a chore too. Not to mention the annoying feedback for the survival elements.
    The game features way too many cutscenes and again forces the player to take the role of an observer, despite this thing being called a game
    In a sense, even Skyrim has better combat and overall gameplay, since it at least feels good and smooth to play and the systems there work well together, while KCD not only has very rudimentary systems but also didn't do a good job of making those systems work well together.

    Overall: 5/10

    The greatest weakness of KCD is the creators obsession with realism and being unable to compromise between that and actual fun gameplay. A lot of things in this game could have been better if it wasn't for stubborn decision makers on the team. I feel sorry for all the great artists and other members of the team that had to waste their talents on such a lacking vision.

    It's sad to already see a lot of critics and players throwing those 10s and 90s ratings out, because the game clearly isn't that good. On the other hand it's also not that bad, like some other critics try to make it out to be.

    All in all this "game" is worth a buy if you are looking for an experience of the walking simulator kind. In terms of gameplay it is way behind any other random rpg ever. So ultimately I wouldn't recommend it all, despite the production values being decent enough to push the overall rating to a 5. It's just that a 2/10 gameplay doesn't really make the cut as a game.    … Expand
  14. CasperWenneke
    Aug 4, 2018
    5
    This game is in just one word, (Encredible). Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an outstanding and special game. nothing like this has really been done before with this succes. many games have tried, but it just hasn't worked.

    what a lot of people don't seem to understand about the game sometimes is that this game strives on realism and is supposed to have slow combat and all that, but    This game is in just one word, (Encredible). Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an outstanding and special game. nothing like this has really been done before with this succes. many games have tried, but it just hasn't worked.

    what a lot of people don't seem to understand about the game sometimes is that this game strives on realism and is supposed to have slow combat and all that, but indeed, the saving system is one of the worst travisties for this game in my opinion, it is still an awesome game that anybody who loves RPG should definetly play.

    Pros:
    Realistic system
    Not at all a bad storyline
    The stealth and lockpicking system is quite different from other games
    Historically acurrate
    Great Graphics
    Vast speech and social system

    Cons:
    Very Glitchy (but these can be fixed with updates in the future)
    Not such a big map if you really think about it
    Saving system is utterly trash and should be remade
    Clunky controls at times
    Lack of fov settings
    Extremely laggy and unsupportive even on lowest settings

    Overall:
    Outstanding and creative game, the story is quite good and very interesting at the start too but it has a lot of bugs and a terrible, just terrible saving system. it's a fresh game straight out of the oven but should have been polished more. Kingdom Come: Deliverance needs to be fixed from all of these bugs and glitches and added a new save system. extremly realistic i would say with a food, rest and injury system. and the combat feels satisfying but a bit clunky. Great game, hope they fix the bugs and so on and they could have a 10 on their hands

    Update: this game is still missing alot of features and is a drag to play again. My rating for this game has went down, and i't will probably not go up.    … Expand
  15. paol0
    Jan 6, 2019
    5
    I've had quite high expectation about the game since 2015. It's a Czech game and Czech story, it aims to high level of realism, it's open world, It's cry engine.
    Warhorse tried to deliver, but failed on many levels. I've finished the game within 3 months after release and I have to say that (in my experience) this was the most buggy game in at least a decade.
    Aside from some major bugs    I've had quite high expectation about the game since 2015. It's a Czech game and Czech story, it aims to high level of realism, it's open world, It's cry engine.
    Warhorse tried to deliver, but failed on many levels. I've finished the game within 3 months after release and I have to say that (in my experience) this was the most buggy game in at least a decade.
    Aside from some major bugs that prevent the game from finishing (multiple load or patch helped eventually) there were minor bugs literally every few minutes in gameplay. Broken mechanics (battle, reputation, "dexterity" and health), textures offset, polygons interacting in various funny ways, scripts of any possible interaction, amazing FPS drops for no apparent reason in the middle of nowhere, broken dialogs, etc etc.
    I've managed to finish the story, but I've almost regreted spending about 80 hours with the game as atmosphere went gradually down. Studio could wait another few months, it would make no difference after many years of development.    … Expand
  16. Deimox
    Feb 17, 2018
    5
    Starting off with the good the combat system is fluid, fun and rewarding. A lot of the cut scenes and dialogues tree lead to good or hilarious results. but much like Skyrim this game suffers from the same lack of polish that once you sit down for 20 hours of gameplay starts to crack off like cheap paint.

    Lock-picking is bad enough by itself that it can sour the entire game for you.    Starting off with the good the combat system is fluid, fun and rewarding. A lot of the cut scenes and dialogues tree lead to good or hilarious results. but much like Skyrim this game suffers from the same lack of polish that once you sit down for 20 hours of gameplay starts to crack off like cheap paint.

    Lock-picking is bad enough by itself that it can sour the entire game for you. So you actively avoid it to not let the game go bad. Then we have Archery/Hunting shoot at a rabbit.MISS. IT DOESN'T EVEN REACT TO THE ARROW. IMMERSIVE. REALISTIC. Shoot a deer in the literal **** IT DOESN'T EVEN REACT TO THE ARROW IN ITS ASS. Begin to avoid archery like lock picking. You travel along the world minding your own business and realize something. You're bored. For two hours the only actual fun you've had so far was some random encounters with some highwayman who proceeded to cut each other to death for some reason. So you go questing thinking maybe the games actual content is there big surprise it is. TO BAD IT CONSIST OF HIDE AND SEEK. You travel from rattay to **** , to a mill in the middle of nowhere, to a camp in the middle of nowhere in search of a bandit troop. Finally you get ambushed in the mill by 4 bandits and you jump into the bushes and you realize that this game might not be Skyrim but it can sure as hell convince you other wise that it is. The bandits start Stuttering all over the place as the screen shakes because you somehow magically glitch yourself into the impassable bushes. So you proceed to rain down strikes from atop the bushes as they literally sink into the dirt. IMMERSIVE! Then you jump of the bushes and the 5 foot fall from the top of bushes kills you. IMMERSIVE. and you start your quest back at Rattay because apparently playing for two hours straight doesn't warrant an auto save or something because it would clearly be imbalanced and you obviously need magical immersion alcohol to save your game in real life amigo.

    This game is just as overrated if not more so than skyrim is. Its a lackluster RPG with some good ideas but overall horrible deliverance(AAY). The Dev chewed off way more than they could chew and delivered something that is just not worthy of the hype and praise. Mount and blade warband is constantly on sale on steam and its gives the same type of game play this game gives you and then some.

    One last point this game isn't lesser than Modded Skyrim they aren't even in the same wave length. it is however lesser than vanilla Skyrim. It can't compete with a modless Skyrim I played vanilla skyrim for a month without modding it before realizing how garbage it was. this game has already drain any fun it had with its filler. Maybe the Dev will do it justice and fix the massive amount of bugs and issues but overall it just isn't worth the price tag right now and feels like an early access game.    … Expand
  17. Leavon
    Feb 21, 2018
    5
    Another example of a game being rushed out the door before it was ready. Further, a game needs to be able to hold your attention by being entertaining, this is something that the developers of KCD forgot. Make a game to hard and you will lose players and end up with some writing reviews like this one. I'm extremely dissatisfied with KCD
  18. Yolix25
    Jun 5, 2018
    5
    very good game unfortunately spoiled by a multitude of bugs, I lost + - 50h game just because of all these gameplay bugs! really bad, it could have been part of the best rpg!
  19. ireviewbadgames
    Aug 15, 2018
    5
    This is a tough game to review with some major highs and low points and a lot of mixed feelings in between. Kingdom Come supports an incredibly well-versed, immersive medieval Europe atmosphere with plenty to do outside of main story quests. The "romance" arc is shoddy and hastily put together, as if the developers rushed to implement it and it is not the least bit fulfilling in any way.This is a tough game to review with some major highs and low points and a lot of mixed feelings in between. Kingdom Come supports an incredibly well-versed, immersive medieval Europe atmosphere with plenty to do outside of main story quests. The "romance" arc is shoddy and hastily put together, as if the developers rushed to implement it and it is not the least bit fulfilling in any way. However, if you do not care for this, then this point is obviously moot.

    One of the biggest issues I have with this game is the saving system and combat. Firstly, let's tackle saving. The game only deigns to allow saving when you sleep, after certain story events, and when you drink a special "saviour schnapps." The issue is that the game is riddled with it's fair share of bugs and glitches- some of which can prove to be quite fatal. I've lost progress more than once after taking a soft hop off a small hill and the game's gravity launches me into the air like a rocket ship. This causes the player to potentially lose hours of progress for no fault of their own, which I definitely do not like. I would have appreciated an option to just have a normal save system rather than being gang-pressed into theirs.

    The other issue is their God-awful lock on camera system in combat. This clunky camera system forces you to focus on one person at a time- which would have been fine if the game was composed of only one on one duels. (which it's not.) It is a gigantic pain fighting multiple enemies because of this and I sincerely hope they re-work this in any future games they produce.

    Overall, the game is fantastic for those interested in the time-period and are willing to endure some missteps by the developer.

    +EDIT: I just finished the game and the ending is pretty atrocious. I have docked the original score I gave by 2 points to reflect this. I now recommend prospective players to torrent the game and play it- if you do indeed like the game, even after the ending, then buy it on Steam. Just get ready to shell out some more cash for the ending DLC.    … Expand
  20. Vim88pl
    Jan 10, 2019
    5
    It is very strange RPG
    Pros
    -Beautiful
    -Beautiful
    -Great and hard combat
    -History accuracy
    -Progression system
    -Some quest have great storyline

    Cons
    -Most quest are booring
    -Most characters are boooooring
    -Buggy as hell.
    -Half of the time in the game is loading screen or waiting to end sleeping/fast travel. Seriously, it is frustrating
    -Save system
  21. coobubba
    May 27, 2019
    5
    Let me start this off by saying that I was one of the people who followed this game when it was announced on Kickstarter. I was excited to finally get a historical medieval RPG and I have to say that the game delivers that in spades. It's refreshing to see actual real world kingdoms engaging in war and have a game set in a medieval fantasy without it being bogged down by magic, elves,Let me start this off by saying that I was one of the people who followed this game when it was announced on Kickstarter. I was excited to finally get a historical medieval RPG and I have to say that the game delivers that in spades. It's refreshing to see actual real world kingdoms engaging in war and have a game set in a medieval fantasy without it being bogged down by magic, elves, orcs, etc. The story and the voice acting is also pretty stellar itself. However, that's the end of what I think are the game's strongest points. This gem is bogged down by various weird design choices, clunky mechanics, horrible optimization, and bugs galore even though the game itself has been out for over a year.
    The combat, one of the most interesting aspects of the game for me just feels, not great. Is it realistic? Yes. Does it capture the closterphobia and chaos of real medieval fights? Yes. However the god awful lock on, not explained clinch mechanic, not explained one-handed vs. two-handed differences, and the depth-perception issues really drag it down. I would find myself having difficulties in fights not because of my own skills, but rather because i was having to wrestle the camera to switch between multiple enemies whenever it felt like sticking to someone. I would also constantly misjudge the distance between enemies and myself due to the lack of depth perception from the games unique camera style of your character being a fully rendered model that you can see with the camera being placed on your head. Also the parrying mechanic didn't feel really balanced, with you being staggered and counter attacked whenever you get parried however when ever you parry an enemy they immediately block your counterattack. Archery is also difficult due to the lack of depth perception, the fact that you can't aim before drawing, and that your arrow doesn't go where you're pointing it. As someone who does real life archery with historically designed bows I can guarantee that it's by far much easier in real life than it is in game which is just weird.
    Also the lockpicking and stealth mechanics of the game don't feel great. Lockpicking is this really weird, **** it system in which if you try and go about it slowly you'll just break your picks, rather you need to just force the lock. It feels like such a step back when you look at the lock picking system or skyrim or fallout which feels much better and more intuitive.
    The game also has this weird disconnect between it's immersion systems. You have to constantly ensure that your guy is fed and sleeps, however you can't start fires to cook, you can't set up camps to sleep. You can't buy or build homes in various towns to ensure that you always have a place to rest. Also you can't quick bind things, you want to change from your longsword to your mace? You have to go into a menu. You want to eat? Go into the menu. You just got into a tavern brawl that forces you to use your fists? You better go into the menu to ensure that you re-equip your weapons because the game doesn't automatically do that for you. All of this just makes the "immersion" and inventory mechanics feel clunky and unimmersive.
    Finally, the bugs. Oh my god are some of them bad. You sometimes get the fun and weird bugs like everyone in town's voice lines being replaced with lines as if they're looking for you while you're in stealth. But then you get game breaking bugs. Quest NPCS being frozen in place with you not being able to talk to them. NPCs blocking you into building so you're just stuck unless the game randomly decides that the NPC no longer has collision. You get pushed by an enemy into a bush that you're now trapped in for all eternity. Falling into a pile of sticks that you can't get out of. You and your horse just randomly being stuck while walking. And good old fashioned infinite load screens, which come from everything, even just changing your control settings.
    All in all the game is a nice gesture and I wish to see Warhorse improve for their future projects, however this "immersive" RPG never fails to unimmerse me with the constant need to be in the menus, clunky mechanics, and various bugs.    … Expand
  22. qbs
    Jan 4, 2021
    5
    The story is OK, but I don't like games where all you have to do is: go there, then go there, go back and so on... Fight system is horrible... You can lose fight against dude without any weapon while you have full armor and huge sword just because NPCs have huge damage and when they hit you once - they will hit another 4 hits, while you can't hit more than 3 times. I stopped playing afterThe story is OK, but I don't like games where all you have to do is: go there, then go there, go back and so on... Fight system is horrible... You can lose fight against dude without any weapon while you have full armor and huge sword just because NPCs have huge damage and when they hit you once - they will hit another 4 hits, while you can't hit more than 3 times. I stopped playing after 20 hours because of combat system.… Expand
  23. Mischail
    Apr 3, 2023
    5
    It was fun for a while. 'Realism' mechanics didn't really bother me. Encountered countless open world bugs that made me really appreciate other open world games polish. But not really a big problem after all.
    Then the random guard attacked me for whatever reason (he first followed me for a while and then started to punch me). After I died, I found out that about an hour of my progress is    It was fun for a while. 'Realism' mechanics didn't really bother me. Encountered countless open world bugs that made me really appreciate other open world games polish. But not really a big problem after all.
    Then the random guard attacked me for whatever reason (he first followed me for a while and then started to punch me). After I died, I found out that about an hour of my progress is gone, as the game doesn't save even on quests completion. Which is 'fun' and 'realistic' I suppose. I have like 2 hours after my job to play games. Do you actually think that it's a good idea to simply waste my time like that?! Ok, you're going for the realism. Then at least have consistent rules! Why some quests save your game and some don't? Why should I constantly check if my game was saved or not?!

    Obviously, if you're fine with losing hours of progress here and there, buggy gameplay and overall lack of polish it's still might an interesting game for you.    … Expand
  24. Marijuana_Guy
    Feb 10, 2021
    5
    DISCLAIMER: I played this on PS4
    Pros:
    —The game is (mostly) historically accurate, at least where it matters. The average gamer who probably doesn't know **** about history would have no problems being immersed in this world. —One-on-one combat is great and is, at the very least, logical if not fully realistic. —There are great RPG elements and it's all (to a large extent)    DISCLAIMER: I played this on PS4
    Pros:
    —The game is (mostly) historically accurate, at least where it matters. The average gamer who probably doesn't know **** about history would have no problems being immersed in this world.

    —One-on-one combat is great and is, at the very least, logical if not fully realistic.

    —There are great RPG elements and it's all (to a large extent) realistic and logical. For example, Walking person whilst you're decked out in full plate armor will make you seem more threatening to them which opens up dialogue options.

    —Graphics are great. The lighting and color palette in particular is absolutely amazing and beautiful. In no other RPG game of this kind are you gonna be more tempted to just wander in the woods aimlessly and taking in the sites.

    —The story is extremely interesting, cohesive and immersive up to about half-way through. The opening in particular (although very cliché) does it's job to immerse you in the world and have you connect with the protagonist.

    Cons:
    — 2 on 1, 3 on 1 , etc, Combat is extremely clunky, Borderline broken. The game has an extremely hard time registering hits and often times your character will lock-up mid-attack or your strikes will go through your opponent. This only applies to fights against more than one opponents but you will find yourself in A LOT of these situations as you'll get ambushed by groups of people on the road whilst travelling. And there are no human followers you can hire to help you out.

    Also, Arrows do very little damage and the archery in general is extremely clunky and hard to pull off, Even if you've mastered the bow. You're never going to use it outside of hunting, unless you're a masochist.

    —The bugs and glitches. I can understand them being a small studio and having a relatively small budget but the amount of **gamebreaking** glitches in this game is completely unacceptable. There are no excuses. When you release a product people have to pay for, You are obligated to make it functioning. This game is anything but that. At least other broken pieces of **** like Skyrim and Fallout allowed you to use community patches to fix the game.

    —There are a lot of historical inaccuracies. This is not a major issue for the average gamer but for a game that claims to be historically accurate, it absolutely is. A lot of **** like clothing, armor, city grounds and, the biggest offense of all, crossbows. There are 0 crossbows in this game when medieval Czechia was a literal crossbow country. For more information, check out Shadiversity, Metatron or Skallagrim's thoughts on the game on Youtube.

    —The story is just bad and extremely poorly executed. It starts off great but it's destroyed by pacing problems. Just as the game starts to pick up, it immediately deflates and goes back to having you running around Bohemia and hearing people bloviate. On top of that, the story goes to complete **** about half-way through with a Lord leaving his castle COMPLETELY unprotected and allowing fully armed vagabond enter scot-free. There is also 0 resolution to the crimes done to the main character Henry, It all just amounts to you finding out that some nobleman is your father.

    Retarded **** like this dropkicks you out of the immersion and completely breaks any semblance of story. And the ending is so incredibly cheap and rushed. Nothing was resolved, everything is still yet to be discovered in the inevitable KCD 2 which will probably come in 5-6 years.

    —The RPG mechanics are incredibly inconsistent or outright broken at times. The game has a reputation system, If you do good deeds you gain reputation and vice versa. The problem is that the characters you murder, they will respawn (all non-essential characters at least) and they will fully remember what you did. This makes crime physically impossible as you will have respawned guards that you killed ambush you out of absolutely nowhere when you meet them again.

    The dialogue system is also completely broken. Even if you have 10-20 higher stat-points than them, they will still beat you in the dialogue for whatever reason.

    In conclusion, The game is a decent start for this franchise with inevitably a lot of problems for an inexperienced indie studio. I don't know what they are doing but they should come back and fix all of the issues in this game before setting out to do KCD 2 or something else because with a bit more polish, this game can be an easy 7 or 8/10, at least for me.    … Expand
  25. CigothBlkBird
    Jan 14, 2023
    5
    Perfeito e quem discorda ta simplesmente MUITO errado e carente de atenção, não irei elaborar, mas segurem a bomba
  26. jarusai
    Feb 28, 2018
    4
    The game is crippled with bug and broken quests and since one can't save at will the result is pure frustration. It's a shame because it could be a great game if it worked as intented. Friendly advice: don't buy it yet.
  27. sahlab
    Oct 14, 2020
    4
    This game is something else, but mostly not in a good way though. The concept is good, but not really that original. It expands on the player character aspects of Mount & Blade, adds an actual story, but also piles an unholy number of infuriating mechanics onto the mix.

    So I will start with the positives, The developers were obviously aiming to create a realistic medieval experience,    This game is something else, but mostly not in a good way though. The concept is good, but not really that original. It expands on the player character aspects of Mount & Blade, adds an actual story, but also piles an unholy number of infuriating mechanics onto the mix.

    So I will start with the positives, The developers were obviously aiming to create a realistic medieval experience, and they were successful to some extent. The characters are flawed and relatable, the main quest narrative is interesting and along with the world and characters design are well-research from a historical point of view. The game tries to portray a faithful image of the medieval times through several mechanics most of which are just plain ridiculous. But to be fair some are good e.g. *You start as a nobody who can't do anything well and have to learn and improve. *You have to adapt and compromise to survive within the noble circles. *The fact that there are no fantasy elements means you need to really get good.

    But this game is hampered by the fact that developers were over-ambitious and over-reaching resulting in messy systems and mechanics.
    Take for example the combat system, it tries to be realistic and nuanced but it in the end failed in both and turned out clunky and ridiculous. Terrible target locking system, everyone fights you like a pro even goddamn corpse looters, enemies seemingly having near infinite stamina....etc
    The waiting system is perhaps one of the most infuriating, making you wait in real life for in-game waiting to be done slowly is just sadistic. There is also the travel system, which isn't instantaneous and can be done only between cities, which I get it, it tries to be realistic but the end result is just a lot of grinding and waiting, and that is not counting the long loading times as well, all of which makes the whole experience boring.
    Archery is perhaps the biggest insult the developers direct at the player, the reticule in the middle of the screen disappears when you use a bow! And this not realism this is plain stupid.
    I could go on and on. So in the end I say this..
    TL;DR The game "might" have started with good intentions but end product is a punishment for RPG players.    … Expand
  28. MrnousakCZE
    Feb 15, 2018
    4
    Combat system is a total **** terrible optimization, ugly graphics, controls are terrible, ****ty dialogues, terrible loading screens
  29. Greenbob
    Mar 30, 2018
    4
    warhorse is stuck in a cycle of breaking more than it can fix. KCD could boast replayability, that is, if its player base were restarting the game after completion instead of a faulty patch. (having lost almost 200 hours of in-game character building myself,) Warhorse has over extended its stay on steam and the last 24 hours have reflected that, seeing its reviews crash 10 percent in underwarhorse is stuck in a cycle of breaking more than it can fix. KCD could boast replayability, that is, if its player base were restarting the game after completion instead of a faulty patch. (having lost almost 200 hours of in-game character building myself,) Warhorse has over extended its stay on steam and the last 24 hours have reflected that, seeing its reviews crash 10 percent in under 24 hours with patch 1.4 and an ineffective hotfix 1.4.1. This latest patch has seen warhorse studios ramping up their product by introducing Haircuts and Easter eggs followed closely by destroying save files from 1.3 and the inability to complete the main quest line which was formerly intact in 1.3.4.

    but hey, at least Henry can get a hair cut if your willing to restart or buy the game that cant be finished. Maybe look for some Easter eggs while you anticipate a patch 1.5. As for me and a large amount of preexisting player base, well we're just tapped out.    … Expand
  30. OverdriveA
    Feb 27, 2018
    4
    Well done beta so far. Tons of gliches and bugs. Zero performance optimization. You need to wait sometimes more than 10 seconds until the game loads god knows what when you start a simple dialog. Ridiculous freezes that last more than 5 seconds when you cannot do anything, because the game is coded so poorly that one of the CPU cores has constantly 100% usage. 3rd party programs needed toWell done beta so far. Tons of gliches and bugs. Zero performance optimization. You need to wait sometimes more than 10 seconds until the game loads god knows what when you start a simple dialog. Ridiculous freezes that last more than 5 seconds when you cannot do anything, because the game is coded so poorly that one of the CPU cores has constantly 100% usage. 3rd party programs needed to fix what the devs forgot to fix. Probably a good medieval RPG game within next 6 months when the bugs are fixed and some optimization is added. Stay away until then. All the issues just ruin the fun now.… Expand
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#3 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#5 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 60
  3. Negative: 2 out of 60
  1. CD-Action
    May 16, 2018
    85
    Upon the release the PC version is the only reasonable way to enjoy Kingdom Come. And there’s a lot to enjoy, because historically accurate Middle Ages are an awesome setting. The beginning of the game might not be spectacular, but give Deliverance a chance and it will develop into a unique, deep, gripping experience. [04/2018, p.42]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Apr 24, 2018
    80
    A robust RPG deserves your attention not only for its domestic origin. You will easily forgive its smaller mistakes because of a great narration and a complex gameplay. [Issue#283]
  3. Games.cz
    Apr 24, 2018
    80
    Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a different kind. It's incredibly absorbing in its pace, it amazes with a manically detailed medieval era features and a totally true atmosphere, a series of skillfully built quests and, and when you get used to it, a fantastic combat system. There is a one-too-much cliché in the story arc, but the main problem lies in the technical issues. The game is, however, such a remarkable, huge, different and fresh experience that the occasional bug can be simply ignored.
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